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...Israeli Defense Force will always vigorously defend checkpoints, working under the assumption that if it doesn't, the mobs will pour through and attack the Israeli civilans who often live right beyond. At the same time, Israel should refrain from rocket attacks against targets inside the West Bank and Gaza. Justified or not, they only worsen the situation...
...Shatila refugee area near Beirut. The official government report found that Sharon as Defense Minister had "indirect responsibility" for the massacres, and that event remains an essential part of the Arab vision of him.* "For us," says Ziad Abu Amr, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Gaza, "he could never be anything except a murderer and criminal...
...though Palestinians on the street scream abuse against Sharon, their leaders know he's not their problem--yet. At a recent meeting with European visitors in Gaza, aides say Arafat mockingly proclaimed himself unfazed by the prospect of Sharon's sitting across the negotiating table: "Sharon frightens Barak a lot more than he frightens me." Sharon, Arafat says, could deliver what little he promises, unlike Barak, who in the eyes of many Palestinians seems to overreach at times...
...Israel had responded with air raids on Gaza after two Israelis were killed Monday in a bomb attack on a school bus, but that action had only served to weaken Israel's diplomatic position. Egypt recalled its ambassador in protest of the Israeli air raids, signaling a new chill in relations between the country and its longest-standing Arab peace partner. Even the United States criticized the Israeli action as "disproportionate and excessive." And that Wednesday car bombing proved that heavy Israeli retaliation was unlikely to stop terror attacks...
...Islamic Jihad, but also by the rank and file of his own Fatah organization, whose militia have led the street confrontations with Israeli forces for the past two months. Barak, too, has to deal with some very angry generals and even angrier Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza, and there remains vast potential for violence to consume the situation despite the best intentions of the leadership. Even so, those leaders know their vital interests leave them little alternative but to resume some form of political dialogue, even if it's months, or even years in the making...